ExecuJet, part of the Luxaviation Group, is announcing the approval of a free trade zone at its MRO facility in Lagos, Nigeria, with customers set to save 10-15% or more on supply and maintenance services.
The unstable landing of an S-92 helicopter on a North Sea oil rig could have been prevented if exceedances on the helo's HUMS had been correctly identified.
Why would anyone want to operate a business jet into Hong Kong? Arrival and departure slots at Hong Kong and overnight parking for non-airline aircraft are among the most difficult—and expensive—to obtain of any destination in the world. And with recent changes that disconnect slot reservations from parking assignments, coordinating a stay has become that much harder.
Is China's airport development program a serious attempt to bring air transportation to the country's far-flung regions? Are the hundreds of airports planned going to truly open China to business aviation?
I know people who commute daily down Interstate 26. They complain bitterly about the morning and evening crawls and how the experience is worsening as more and more Yankees move to South Carolina.
Piper's $3 million PA-46-600TP flagship, marketed as the M600, is settling solidly into a niche between the $2 million M500/Meridian turboprop and $4-5 million rivals.
NTSB investigators took a long look at the human factors elements in the May 15, 2017, loss of a Trans-Pacific Air Charter Gates Learjet 35A and its two crewmembers while attempting an ILS 6 circle to 1 approach in VMC at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.
Editor's Note: As promised last month and in honor of our late former colleague and editor-in-chief, Archie Trammell, we once again offer up his last article for this magazine, published in our March 2016 edition.
Dassault Aviation took the wraps off its 5,500-nm Falcon 6X at a day-long technical briefing at Paris Le Bourget Airport on Feb. 28. The new, top-of-the-line Falcon is slated for first flight in 2021 and entry into service in 2022.
Fifty years ago, BCA covered the Piper PA35-18 commuter liner, JetStar and Fan Jet Falcons. The April 1968 issue contained the Purchase Planning Handbook; the 2018 handbook is coming out in May.
